In September, China’s senior spy master Chen Yixin went public with a blunt assessment of what he described as a growing threat to the Chinese Communist Party: artificial intelligence.
Leaps in machine learning are “directly threatening our political security, system security and ideological security,” Chen, the head of the Ministry of State Security, wrote in a lengthy article. Whoever masters AI, he concluded, will have “grasped the pulse of the times.”
U.S. officials now fret the Chinese spies orchestrated a major coup: grasping one of the most high-profile players behind the AI boom.
